In May 2020, SpaceX carried out its first Crewed Demonstration Flight. The aerospace industry has demonstrated that its Crew Dragon spacecraft is capable of carrying astronauts safely to the International Space Station (ISS) with the Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX is now able to make its second crew flight, known as Crew-1, the first operational mission…
SpaceX is about to launch the first human-rated commercial spacecraft with four astronauts this Saturday, November 14th at 7:49pm EST. This won’t be the first human SpaceX mission. This summer, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley rocketed into Earth’s orbit and docked at the International Space Station aboard the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. They…
The SpaceX Crew Dragon, called “Resilience” by the crew selected for the mission, is ready for the launch of the Crew-1 mission scheduled for November 14th to transport four astronauts of the Expedition 64 to the ISS. https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1311004705108172802?s=20 This “Crew Dragon” is part of the SpaceX Dragon capsule family and is named “Dragon Rider” but…
A lot more people will soon have access to the satellite-based broadband internet service Starlink from SpaceX. The CEO of the company, Elon Musk, tweeted on Monday that “several thousand more Starlink beta participation invitations” are coming this week. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1323348268823314432?s=20 However, this is just for U.S. customers. But in response to a couple of other…
A rollout is now underway for SpaceX’s “Better than Nothing Beta” for Starlink. And it seems that Starlink’s Terms of Service and Installation Instructions contain some unforgettable (and somewhat sensible) Easter Eggs in the true Elon Musk theme. Needless to mention, it has charmed the space community. Among the most prominent of these Easter Eggs…
The Transportation Command of the Pentagon and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are teaming up to explore using rockets to ship cargo across space. The plan raises the prospect of sending urgently needed supplies to U.S. troops anywhere on Earth within minutes. Although the concept is theoretically feasible, there are many factors that could render it unworkable,…
Elon Musk announced on Twitter earlier this year that SpaceX would partner with the medical device company Medtronic to help the company manufacture the most innovative ventilators, which are crucial in the fight against the pandemic. Since then, information about the relationship of the two firms have been very limited, with Musk simply mentioning that…
Only 24 astronauts have traveled to the moon in the history of mankind, and no one has returned since 1972. SpaceX is designing the technologies and spacecraft that will enable humans to return to the lunar surface. The aerospace company has produced some of the most advanced rockets and spacecrafts in the world, which have…
Just a week after news broke that SpaceX provided Starlink internet service to the Emergency Management Department of Washington State, the state announced that SpaceX’s satellites benefit the Native American Hoh Tribe as well. On October 6th, SpaceX’s 12th batch of operational Starlink satellites and 13th mission overall were successfully launched by the Falcon 9…
SpaceX won a $149 million contract to develop missile-tracking satellites for the U.S. Military Space Development Agency (SDA), according to a financial document released by the Pentagon Department of Defense on October 2nd. SDA Director Derek Tournear told SpaceNews that SpaceX “came in with an extremely credible proposal” to build the Starlink bus design-based satellites.…